Final Thoughts

Thief is a good looking game, though perhaps not as practiced equally y'all might expect. While the rendering technologies nosotros mentioned earlier such as Contact Hardening Shadows and Parallax Occlusion Mapping look dainty, Thief's graphics just aren't on the same level as benchmark titles including Crysis 3 and Battleground four.

This is at to the lowest degree partly because those rendering technologies are essentially tacked onto an older game engine (Unreal Engine 3). Fifty-fifty worse news is that considering those features aren't natively supported past UE3, they likely come up with a bigger performance striking than if the game had been developed with a newer engine.

On the bright side, for now it seems like operation is surprisingly well balanced between AMD and Nvidia GPUs, even though this is an AMD-supported title and Nvidia hasn't released a Thief-oriented driver update. Support for Mantle has too yet to be patched in, so today's operation isn't exactly final.

At the upper stop, the R9 290X and GTX Titan delivered well-nigh the same results while the GTX 780 Ti was simply a tad faster. Nevertheless, Nvidia has an edge in the lower brackets with the GTX 760 and 770 being cheaper and faster than the R9 270X and 280X. Additionally, for the same cash, the GTX 660 outpaced the HD 7850.

Unfortunately, we tin't get Crossfire running with the Catalyst 14.2 Beta using Hard disk 7970 or 7990 cards, even though AMD says it should work. Subsequently scouring online forums it seems some users have been able to go Crossfire going while many haven't. SLI does seem to piece of work, albeit inefficiently with 40-fifty% functioning gains.

Assuming you lot're fine with loftier quality at 1080p or and then, y'all should be able to play Thief with mid-range cards such as the R9 270X and GTX 760, while the sub-$200 GTX 750 Ti offers relatively playable operation at 1680x1050. Maximum quality graphics and higher resolutions will require a flagship GPU, however.

Until the side by side ane, you can cheque out more PC gaming benchmark tests here, including Far Cry 4, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Battleground Hardline, Dying Light and more.